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China, Egypt, Reniassance, Reformation, Aztecs, Incas, Mayans

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5 themes of geography   location, place, human environment interaction, movement, region.  
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archeology   looking at what people left behind to discover things about people long ago  
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rosetta stone   a stone with the same story written in a bunch of different languages used to decode heiroglyphics  
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time period before writing   prehistory  
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discovered king tut   howard carter  
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where did humans start?   africa  
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trade route that connects china to india and europe (main trade is silk and spices)   the silk road  
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who was emporor of china when the great wall of china was built?   emporor shi huandi  
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nomad   moves from location to location. no permanant civilization  
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fossil   remains of something that was once alive  
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stressed order that brought china together (founded by confucious)   confucionism  
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tigris and euphrates flood to make what   silt (fertile soil)  
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what organ were mummys left with after mummified?   the heart so that anubis could measure it and decide what would happen to you  
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what plant was used to make paper   papyrus  
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many gods   polytheistic  
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one god   monotheistic  
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who was the "first emporor of china"?   shi huandi (emporor qin)  
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what 2 main rivers run through china?   the yangtze and yellow river  
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what was the first writing system?   cuneiform (made by the sumarians)  
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what was the first set of laws that also helped unite mesopotamia? (made by hammurabi)   hammurabis code  
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what was the Aztecs capital city?   Tenochtitlan  
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what did the aztecs use to record/write things?   quipui (a series of knots)  
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who conquered the aztecs?   cortes  
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what was the incans capital city?   maccu piccu  
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what does reniassance mean?   rebirth  
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who was the reniassance man?   leonardo da vinci (Mona lisa and the last supper)  
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how many wives did king henry the 8th have?   6. divorce, beheaded, died, divorce, beheaded, survived.  
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who invented the printing press?   guttenberg  
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what is a fresca   paining on plaster (sistine chapel)  
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who wrote "the prince"   machiavelli  
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vernacular   language that is native to an area  
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scribes   the only people allowed to write during ancient times  
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100 years war was between who/   england and france  
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the set of rules for knights   chivalry  
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what is a pyramid shaped place of worsip   ziggurat  
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what was a pyramid used for   a tomb  
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where was the birth place of the reniassance?   florence  
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florence was known for what occupation?   banking  
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what family was in charge of florence for most of the 15th century?   the medici family  
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indulgence   a certificate that the churches sold to make money. they claimed that buying this certificate would get you out of pergatory and into heaven faster  
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pergatory   the place inbetween heaven and hell  
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supporters of art   patrons  
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machiavelli   wrote "the prince"- how to be the best king possible. 'if your a ruler, it is better to be feared and respected then loved and walked all over.  
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castiglione   wrote "the courtier"- how to behave when in a kings courte. describes ideal behavior  
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humanism   the idea that individuals are important  
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95 thesis   95 things that Martin Luther thought was wrong about the catholic church  
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john calvin   calvinism- people are born naturally bad.. (TULIP)  
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Henry the 8th   wanted a divorce because his current wife couldn't give him a baby boy. the priest wouldn't do it so he secretly got married to anne bolyn. had 6 wives  
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elizabeth 1st   henry and anne's kidd. she was known as the best queen. and was protastant, but wouldn't be too mean to the catholics. "virgin queen"  
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mary the first   henry and katherine of erigon's kidd. known as bloody mary becuase she killed so many people..  
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who inspired the artists of the reniassance   greeks and romans  
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donatello   first free form bronze statue (david)  
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michelangelo   david, the sistine chapel, la pieta  
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Da vinci   mona lisa, last supper, human anatomy, inventions. "the reniassance man"  
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raphael   the school of athens, linear perspective  
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dante   the divine comedy  
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divine comedy   people that descibes him traveling through hell  
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utopia   written by sir thomas more.. book about the perfect society  
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shakespeare   37 plays and 154 sonnets.. started as famous actor.. comedies, tragedies, and histories  
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